Demi Moore Airbrushed?
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Chuck Rocker in Dis & Dat, Entertainment, Scoopage
Much controversy has been raised over Demi Moore’s cover shot on the December issue of W Magazine.
The shot was taken by fashion photographers Mert & Marcus in November and depicts the star looking very slim in a skin tight green dress. However, if one looks closely at the photo it appears that her hip has been digitally altered (as in, NOT THERE). This was publicly pointed out by a photographer named Citrano and no, he wasn’t praised for his keen eye. Moore and attorney Martin Singer handed Citrano a formal request to make a retraction and apologize for his comments. He refused.
Now, to fuel the fire, comes the cover of January 2010 W Magazine Korea. This cover shot is the same as the one used for the America edition but shows Moore with a much fuller hip and curvier figure. Clearly the image has been altered for one of the editions…but which one?
According to Cirtrano:
“Right when you thought this whole thing was over, something comes along that, as the Jerky Boys would say, puts a whole different paint job on things. I was back in Maine for Christmas (and of course, holding my breath for an apology and retraction from Demi Moore and her legal team), just hanging out with my Mom and her cat – and in came a cameraphone tip from halfway ’round the world… The January 2010 issue of W Korea just hit the newsstands (with the ironic subtitle Women in Full). Unsurprisingly, they decided to use the excellent Mert & Marcus shot of Demi Moore. But very surprisingly, they installed a new hip on Demi. So: even W’s sister thought the image looked weird enough to fix.”
“This raises a few serious questions for (Moore’s lawyer) Martin Singer, his client, and W: did W’s Korean team add in a fake hip because they just kinda thought it looked awkward? (Y’know, like I did, before you attacked, discredited, and threatened to sue me?) Or did they merely reveal a hip that was already there, but that Singer, et alia litigiously denied had been accidentally obliterated?”
“If it’s the former: are Singer, Moore et alia now going to pursue legal action against W Korea? By retouching the image’s supposedly ‘genuine representation’ of her ‘absolutely not retouched’ hip, did W Korea imply the same things Singer claims I did (but which, of course, I didn’t)?
“If it’s the latter: who was aware of this? If Mr. Singer and Ms. Moore were aware, this raises some rather serious legal questions. Regardless of it being the dumbest argument ever, some very serious core principles are in play.”
This isn’t the first time we’ve had photoshop scandal on our news stands and I’m quite certain it won’t be the last. Look, either way Demi Moore is effing hot. Let’s just focus on that and stop worrying about altered images.
